Item: Alation Data Catalog
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Making metadata on the presentation layer datasets available to the business users, analysts and stakeholders.

Pros and Cons

upload of data dictionary
natural language search
easy to use UI
articles and tag facility

more formats to upload data dictionary like excel, csv(without having to enclose data in rich text or html)
email notification when someone assigns/asks questions to you using "conversation"

Return on Investment

positive impact in terms of self help capability

Alternatives Considered

leader in industry and adopted by our organisation.

Key Insights

Do you think Alation Data Catalog delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Alation Data Catalog's feature set?

Yes

Did Alation Data Catalog live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Alation Data Catalog go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Alation Data Catalog again?

Great tool for data catalog maintenance. Compose, articles, tags are great features. Custom templates and flexibility around homepage customization. Lineages could have been improved for the datasets which are database views and Alation could read the view definition to form lineage out of it, instead of having to wait users to write queries and then have Alation learn connections through those queries.

Overall good data catalog product

Overall Satisfaction with Alation Data Catalog